Now imagine instead of 6 trans/nonbinary students just 1 less and therefore 5 would have said they were sexually assaulted in the last 12 months. 5 out of those 18 trans/nonbinary students, that's 27% of them.

You're misreading the data. The 25.9% wasn't the background rate of sexual assault for cisgender people. That was the background rate of sexual assault among the overall population of transgender and non-binary youth that responded to the survey. The background rate of sexual assault for cisgender youth is about 15% for cisgender girls and 4% for cisgender boys. The study was looking at the differential caused by restricted locker room access within transgender/non-binary respondents. The sample size and gap in violence reported is much larger comparing trans/non-binary against cisgender folks.

But admittedly, the article isn't as clear as the actual study, which can be found here:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC88495...

If you like, the wiki entry on the topic also has links to several other studies that demonstrate that trans folks face a higher incidence of violence than their cis counterparts:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence_against_tra...

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