In fairness, as an enby person, I’ve found that while certain gendered words trip me up, others don’t.
If it feels in character, you could have it be that for Arthur, King is a more nuanced word, where they personally associate it more with their role rather than any given gender, and they could use it interchangeably with Queen?
I’m often stumped by gendered nouns (outside of like a noun being gendered due to language convention: la playa, los llaves, etc.) like actor vs actress, I usually just call everyone an actor because it doesn’t make sense to me to make a distinction? It’s a job, you know? You don’t see the English language doing the same for blacksmith or stonemason (I am aware that those jobs didn’t traditionally include women, but neither did being an actor so I find it a moot point).
Like I dunno, job words for me feel less gendered in my head than like, people words like woman and man, and I can be more flexible, and I know that’s not everyone’s experience, but it is an experience that I’m certain I’m not alone in.
Also, while I’m on this point, sometimes I’ve found what I’m comfortable with in one language is not a 1:1 experience in another! So Arthur could just be complicated! And that’s okay, the experience doesn’t really have to make sense to anyone but them (and well, technically you, since you’ve got to write them)
(Praying this conveys good vibes because that was definitely the goal)
It makes so much sense, actually! Especially considering Arthur's feelings on certain words and gendered norms, clothes etc. I think fem Arthur would quite like the title of King, and I do also think, as someone else have said, that since there have always been kings, she'd take the title regardless of gender
