Think Progress reports the 2015 U.S. Trans Survey, which was developed and supported by a group of LGBT groups and researchers (and also includes genderqueer and nonbinary identities), launched yesterday and it's incredibly exciting. Here are five big reasons why.

1. Their last survey in 2011 was cited an estimated 15,000 times in the media, making it a go-to source for information on transgender suicide attempts, homelessness, employment discrimination, and health care discrimination. It will also provide the first insights we've seen about how many transgender people have surgery as part of their transition, all of which will help the media get a better picture of what's really going on in the lives of transgender people in America.

2. An estimated 2 percent of the transgender population are on board to take the survey. That might seem like a small number, but if 2 percent of the entire population of U.S. citizens took a survey, that'd amount to over 6 million people, thereby making the odds of getting a significant picture of modern day struggles from trans people of various races, jobs, and income levels significant.

3. It's specifically designed to show how society's acceptance of transgender people changes over time. This new survey will be taken every five years and will also focus on the experiences of trans people during the past year specifically, instead of throughout their lives. So once 2020 hits, we'll be able to see if things have gotten better for trans people specifically in the last year or the last few years. So even if things were bad for someone in the 1990s until 2015, we could still see if there were improvements from 2015 to 2020 which would be uplifting and compelling, to say the least.

4. The data is pretty much foolproof against people who would try to undermine it. Sandy James, the NCTE's survey project manager says the survey has been designed to eliminate any inconsistencies that could be the result of someone trying to tamper with the study, and adds that it's "very methodologically sound" and has been well-tested.

5. It's overwhelmingly in-demand by transgender people. Mara Keisling, executive director of the National Transgender Discrimination Survey, which had a successful run in 2011, thought this survey would have about 1,500 responses but it's already had 6,400 responses. When the survey first went up, they even had to put a note on the page telling people their servers were having trouble keeping up with the demand for people who wanted to take it, which just goes to show you how much it's needed and how many voices are out there to be heard.

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