site’s back, time to party
It should be somewhat simple nowadays especially with LLMs and sentiment analysis. But yeah, they can compile a list of people who had a change fairly easy. Only way to avoid this is to change countries.
also like a lot of name changes and stuff are publicly posted on county organ websites… so like hypothetically a foreign country could dig into that and see that youre trans, but itd be a lot more effort than looking at their own files and might not be immediately obvious that they need to look