While women weren't eligible to inherit the throne back then, The Sword of Selection had chosen her, which would be a valid reason for people to accept her reign because they had long accepted that whoever pulled the Sword would be king. Even if people were dubious about her being the person pulling the Sword, she could have just put the sword back like Arthur in Disney's The Sword In the Stone did, let other guys try unsuccessfully first, then pulled it herself right in front of their eyes. Also, everyone in her kingdom totally trusted Merlin's prophecies. Given those conditions, I don't see why (other than plot device) Artoria "had to" hide her gender. Doing so had caused problems for herself and the kingdom.
Morgan - her half-sister - had always vied for the throne and didn't care that she was a woman and ineligible.
Nero didn't hide her gender, either, and her time was 57 AD which far preceded Artoria's time. There had been ancient queens before, during and after Artoria's time.
Even for plot device, Fate doesn't even do it convincingly: "hey, King Arthur was, in fact, a woman pretending to be a man, but we design her wearing a ball gown dress (1) for the sake of appeal and (2) because she needs to be 1 of the waifu in FSN".
Being a fan of a series does not mean I would blindly accept any explanation offered to me regardless of how nonsensical and inconsistent it is.
There are people who will defend everything the franchise presents to them, think that the words of Nasu are absolute. But to me, King Arthur being a female is simply a plot device because Fate/Stay Night needed her to be a waifu. FSN originally had Arthur as a male but Takeuchi advised Nasu to genderbend Arthur and make FSN an eroge so that the game would sell because the majority of fans were/are young males.
That is all.
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