Is the “wrongness” that you feel with presenting as male purely an expression/conformity thing? If you could dress and express yourself as feminine as you feel on the inside, would that be enough? If so, then you might be a non-conforming guy. GNC people, whilst not trans, do have a fair bit in common with trans people in terms of existing in a society that has a largely close-minded understanding of gender.

Otherwise, does it bother you to be referred to using masc terms (like “son”, “brother”, “father” etc.)? Are there parts of your body that cause you distress, because they don’t line with what you expect or think feels right? If yes, then you may benefit from experimenting with labels under the trans umbrella. Only you will be able to determine if it feels right, but without trying you may never know.

Is this article a joke or dead serious?

The second option. With the first option you’ll end up in situations where you have spare compute/network resource that isn’t being utilised because all the remaining ones in the current batch of 100 are being handled by other threads / worker processes.

Write a scraper using python and selenium or something. You may have to manually log in as part of it

Not a DevOps eng so this might not be the most elegant answer but you could write an Ansible playbook to edit a hosts file on the target server and trigger that after deployment, within your CI/CD pipeline.

In an ideal situation, though, all your servers connect to a centralised DNS server (usually your gateway) where those domain names are managed.