Pregnenolone can be converted to mineralocorticoids like deoxycorticosterone and aldosterone, rather than sex steroid hormones.

“further up on this steroid hormone synthesis pathway you can see that if you take pregnenolone across to progesterone you can then end up at deoxycorticosterone and aldosterone corticosterone which are in fact mineralocorticoids involved in the preservation and maintenance of electrolytes not so much sex steroid hormones like testosterone estradiol etc”