Unusual Perisex body

Question?

Hello so yeah, I'm not intersex but I figured you guys would have the most experience and knowledge about this so yeah.

I tried posting this before but got downvoted immediately so I assume I have worded it in a very intersexist way, I'm autistic so I'm not good with words, what I mean with unusual is that my body is unusual for a perisex individual not that intersex people are unusual, I'm sorry for wording it in a bigoted way.

So, I have mostly a pretty regular perisex body except there are some very odd things.

For example while I don't have a very painful period it is pretty irregular both in symptoms and time frame. This irregularity is what caused me to track my period and it's almost never correctly predicting my period. The length of the bleeding itself is always roughly the same, around 7 days but the heaviness, the cycle length and the other symptoms vary wildly. Recently it has gotten more irregular which my psychiatrist thinks might be because of my antidepressants but I never had issues with that before and I didn't take a different dosage.

Additionally to that I have sweating more aligning with men than women. For example I have to use male deodorant because female deodorant doesn't work well enough for me. My (still pre-T) transmasc friend also sweats a lot but when I told him that I have to reapply male deodorant over the day sometimes he was very surprised and confused because for him it lasts until the next morning.

Other than that I rn can't really think of other very notably unusual stuff, probably because my enby ass doesn't wanna talk about issues that might make me dysphoric

I don't have unusual hair growth except for that one singular beard hair on my chin and I'm not particularly tall which is why I know it isn't an intersex condition in my case.

My mom said she has higher than average testosterone and has to shave her upper lip sometimes (but rarely) but even she doesn't have the same issues I have so I don't think it's that, but I have no idea what else it could be, these issues existed before I took antidepressants as well so it's also not that. I only know that it has to be something hormonal.

So my question is if I and what I should get tested for for these things? I want to clarify I DON'T want direct medical advice (so please don't take this down mods 😅) I just wanna know how to proceed.

TLDR: I have some notable for perisex individuals untypical characteristics, need advice on how to proceed.

Posted Jul 23, 2026, 10:23 AM UTC

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