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what? i quoted your post in full.
but the question stands. if you yourself would feel awkward exposing yourself to a mixed audience, why do people demand that the only reason people in the military could feel the same way is because they must be bigoted?
Many people feel uncomfortable getting naked in front of anyone that they aren't intimate with, it doesn't matter what the sex of the people are. I know that I wouldn't feel any more comfortable with being naked in front of a gay guy then I would a straight guy. I would be slightly more comfortable being naked in front of a gay girl though than being naked in front of a gay guy, because I could be attracted to the guy, but not the girl, so I would care more about the way the gay guy saw me than how the gay girl saw me. Not everyone feels this way about it, but most people would still prefer to not be naked in front of anyone they aren't intimate with and/or comfortable with.
Another example, I would get naked in front of any of my female relatives without a second thought, even my sister who is bi. I would not however get naked in front of any of my male relatives, with the exceptions of my husband and sons (although this is changing), even if they came out as gay. It isn't about attraction, but rather what people are used to. My mother can be naked in front of pretty much anyone without feeling uncomfortable.
But that works the same way for the guys that you are talking about too. Everyone who joined the military in the last almost 2 decades has been well aware that they would most likely be serving with a gay person in their unit at one point or another (unless they are in complete denial). They should know that even with the compromise that someone who found them attractive could be seeing them naked.
If you didn't know the sexuality of a man and a woman each in a different room, and you had to go into one of those two rooms to get naked, which would you choose? Which do you think most women would choose? If it was for an exam, which would you rather perform the exam on you? Which do you think most women would rather have do this?