When I was at the academy, they had shower bays like a big HS gym would. There weren’t any stalls.
I had a classmate get caught on a beach in Hawaii en flagrante delicto with another of the same gender during our Junior summer, and it got him bounced.
He was trying to make something like pregnancy happen by shooting genetic material into the wrong hole of another male shipmate.
It makes a difference. The idea of another guy in the shower with you that you KNOW is interested in the view is extremely offputting.
When we didn’t know, we didn’t care, because EVERYONE GETS THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT, which is a point lost on the velvet mafia. Perhaps they get the point, but don’t care about what it does to morale.
I suspect that sort of thing will still get you bounced.
No one is going to tolerate the disruption.
You ought to be allowed to know, so you can choose whether to be in intimate range of them. That is, they ought to be required to state whether they are gay or bisexual.
Maybe some gays can be completely discrete, politely avert their eyes, and treat their fellow soldiers with dignity in the showers. It's the leering perverts that camp out in the showers, toilets, or saunas with stroking half-swollen hard-ons that create pure hell for the straight soldiers just trying to get done with their business and get out.
And yes, Rep. Frank, these perverts infest communal showers gyms, and recreational facilities through this country. Now they will be emboldened to act even more overtly in the military services.
It's easy to say, "They'll get kicked out." But will they? They'll just deny it, claim the accuser is homophobe, and file a complaint with the EEO office. They won't get kicked out. Their accusers will be.