GEN Z has confirmed the mullet is the official hairstyle of anyone who wishes to announce they stand outside of the gender binary. 

Neither boyish and short nor long and feminine, the mullet represents the younger generation’s refusal to conform to traditional standards of gender or beauty and willingness to look like a truck driver from 1987.

Sophie, not her real name, aged 20 with a nine-month-old mullet, said: “It’s inclusive. It’s neither one thing nor the other. It’s open to all who wish to be defined not by the sex they were born into but by their resemblance to Billy Ray Cyrus.

“We’re a generation that uses our style to show off our values – look at our shapeless, oversized T-shirts bearing ironic corporate logos as an example. Mullets promote pansexuality, as it’s impossible to tell the age or sex of whoever you’re chatting up.

“40-year-old lesbian? 19-year-old straight man? It’s a sexual bran tub where you don’t know who you’re going home with until you get their going-out Crocs and trackie bottoms off.

“And it’s asexual-friendly. Team a mullet with a bumbag and you’re cock-blocking the entire world.”

She added: “Mullets are massive on TikTok, the app tech experts have warned is being exploited by China to harm Western youth. Coincidence.”